Timbaland's Custom Keyboard

Timbaland loves his keyboards. You can tell as much from that old YouTube video of him eating a banana, drinking from a big jug of pink liquid, and geeking out over his own genius as he previews beats for Jay-Z in the studio.

Thus, it makes sense that Timbaland would help a company design a signature keyboard for him; we just didn't expect it to look so funny. But there it is above, the Timbaland Special Edition MiKo LX "keyboard workcenter," brought to you by computer music production design company Open Labs (the company also makes a Special Edition Timbaland NeKo LX "keyboard production station"). Other Open Labs keyboards have it too, but that QWERTY keyboard inside the keyboard is a hoot.

"I've made the new Timbaland Special Edition MiKo with Tim's Touch. It's got everything I need in a single box, and when I use it, we make masterpieces," says the super-producer. The biggest part of "Tim's Touch" seems to be the "Ensoniq Urban Legends Sound Library," which allows the keyboard to make a buttload of sounds about which we know nothing.

Open Labs released both Timbaland Special Edition keyboards last year, and each one still costs over four thousand bones, so cherish that picture.